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Acquisition of services for the collection of oily and hazardous waste from vessels and port equipment on the Douro waterway

Aquisição de Serviços de Recolha de Resíduos Oleosos e Perigosos de Embarcações e Equipamentos Portuários na Via Navegável do Douro — original title

PTPortugal · Freguesia de Leça da Palmeira

Your path to submission

Deadline: 25 November at 23:59 — 25 days left.
The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
Offer and evidence in: Portuguese.
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What the buyer is looking for

Acquisition of services for the collection of oily and hazardous waste from vessels and port equipment on the Douro waterway

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

BuyerAPDL - Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, SA →

TypeServices

Estimated value€1,500,000

Published28 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Place of performanceFreguesia de Leça da Palmeira

Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

90 · Cleaning, environment & waste

CPV 90500000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

11% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (63 awards since 2025, spread over 41 companies). That is well below the sector norm (28%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 63 awards since 2025
Not one of the 63 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 7%.n = 63

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Clement

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Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Portuguese.

Tender documents — direct download

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Annex 1

Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration

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Administrative conditions

The full notice, official wording

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

Company	Awards	Period
CONSULMAR – Projectistas e Consultores, Ld.ª	3	2026
DDN - Gestão de Projectos, S.A.	2	2026
EXPANDINDÚSTRIA - Estudos, Projectos e Gestão de Empresas, S.A.	2	2026
MSW - Estudos e Projectos de Obras Marítimas, Lda	2	2025–2026
Teixeira Duarte - Engenharia e Construções, S.A.	2	2026

From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitewww.apdl.pt

Deadline — Wednesday 25 November at 23:59

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 4 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 800 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 29 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 29 (median of 559 procedures). A normal window for this market.

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Foreign bidders

In Portugal · Cleaning, environment & waste, 18 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 842 recorded awards).

Submission language: Portuguese.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents

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Put together the evidence — in Portuguese

Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.

Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline

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